Last month, teen pop sensation Billie Eilish released her latest single, “Bury A Friend,” and revealed the dramatic title for her debut album: WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? The title doubles as a lyric from “Bury A Friend,” and in a new interview with The FADER, Eilish explains how the whole project is inspired by vivid dreams and nightmares that she experiences almost every night.
“I mean, dude. Where the fuck do we go?!” she asked FADER in reference to the album’s title. “I’m sure somebody’s gonna be like, ‘oh, it’s your brain doing this,’ but, like, you cannot give me a good explanation. I do not understand. Dreams are a really intense part of my life. I’ll go through a month where I’ll have the same nightmare every single night—a dream that’s so bad that the whole day is off, or a dream that’s so good that none of it’s true.”
As The FADER reports, Eilish is pushing for drawings of monsters from her dreams to be incorporated into the merch for her upcoming album. “It’s kind of what the whole album’s about,“ she said.
Eilish previously revealed that “Bury A Friend” is written from the perspective of a monster under her bed, and that the song’s aesthetic inspired the rest of the album.
“When we made ‘bury a friend,’ the whole album clicked in my head,” she said in a press statement. “I immediately knew what it was going to be about, what the visuals were going to be, and everything in terms of how I wanted it to be perceived. It inspired what the album is about. ‘bury a friend’ is literally from the perspective of the monster under my bed. If you put yourself in that mindset, what is this creature doing or feeling? I also confess that I’m this monster, because I’m my own worst enemy. I might be the monster under your bed too.”
Genius previously broke down the song:
Read Billie Eilish’s The FADER profile here and catch up on all the lyrics to “Bury A Friend” on Genius now.
